The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1887-06-09
BIG ENTERPRISES.

DolOW we HuOIc IIOI1 tllO AoAoo IA
arminer, an editorial to show our farm
ers what their brethren in the lone
Star State are doing, It is simply
the lesson which is. being taught all
over the world every day, and which
we must learn, if we would hope to
place agriculture and it's interests
where they properly belong; that les
son is that we must cooperate.
\ Without cooperation we can
have no organization, without organ
ization we can have no system, with
out system we can have nothing:
The general assembly of the Knights
of Labor meets at Temple on the Sec
ond Tuesday in June, the State ALI.
ance meets in Waco the first Tuesday
in August, the Cooperative Manufac.
turing Alliance at an early date. These
four bodies represent between 200, 900
and 800, 900 constituents and control OF
capital any where from ST.. 900, 600 to
$40, 600, 900, Lest this control of
capital should seem extravagant it
must be remembered that these bodies
on cooperative principle similar to
that of building associations and that
the wealth they control is the small
sum of many persons which is equal to
the large sums of a few persons.
These four bodies are intent on having
a fixed headquarters. It is certain
that by committees appointed by each
of those bodies a location and building
will be settled on, the building to cost
not less than 100000. The design
is already pretty we'll fixed. A grand
building of three stories, the first for
stores the second for general Offices
for the headquarters of each of the or
ders, and the third for a general hall
with sleeping and meeting arrange
ments. This building will determine
for all time to come the annual and
other meetings of great bodies growing
year by year and cluster about it the
location of other enterprises. The
value of such a thing to a city is meal
able, and the scheme is creating a stir
in other cities.
Still nearer at hand is a meeting at
Temple from an adjourned meeting at
Waco to fix on a location and estab-
fish a great cotton factory somewhere
in Central Texas between the Colorado
and Brazos river. Temple has offered
a bonus of $40, 900 for such a factory,
and there is other competition. The
cooperative manufacturing alliance is
a general body to aid and foster by
furnishing money to aid manufactur-
ing, and the body which meets at
Temple is a branch. The great scale
on which these co operative bodies act,
and the rapidity with which they carry
out great schemes is remarkable and
increditable to those not c~onversant
with the matter: Already the alliance
order has a fifty thousand dollar news
paper organ and mills and things on
that scale. Their schemes work lust
as building associations work. It is
decided say to. build a cotton mill
to cost fifty thousand dollars. Stock
is issued in shares Of five dollars each,
the first assessment to be ten per cent
Or fifty cents. It is easy to find takers,
the assessments are easily paid and
thus small sums from many persons
Instantly creates a big capital.
To secure the location of this new
cotton mill'tand the headquarters of
these great orders is, we think, worthy
instant and, earnest attentionin Waco.
There are millions. in it and we earnes-
tly urge a consideration of the sub
ject on u representative citizens.